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Language-Specificity in Monolingual and Bilingual Later Lexical Development
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White, Anne; Malt, Barbara C.; Verheyen, Steven; Storms, Gert – Language Learning and Development, 2020
Although children may productively use concrete nouns after limited exposure, complete mastery of adult-like patterns of noun usage can take up to 14 years. We evaluated whether a transition from universal to language-specific naming is part of the refinement in later lexical development, and we compared how this refinement plays out in…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Monolingualism, French, Indo European Languages
Development of Cross-Language Lexical Influence
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Storms, Gert; Ameel, Eef; Malt, Barbara C. – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2015
Bilinguals are often not fully monolingual-like in either language. With respect to the lexicon, recent research demonstrates that their naming patterns for common household objects tend to converge on a common pattern for the two languages. The present study investigates the developmental trajectory of naming of common household objects in…
Descriptors: Native Language, Second Language Learning, Bilingualism, Monolingualism